That is awesome! I have seven PS5 motherboards have shorts and I cannot find it. It’s driving me crazy. Your videos really help me a lot trying to figure it out. Thank you!!!
I'm glad you found your way out of of this rabbit hole, Having a Thermal Camera is an asset when troubleshooting shorted components. Well done my friend! I'm looking forward to your next fix video which may be a while, at least until you get unpacked and setup up a work bench. ttyl. Cheers!
Sorry for all your pain and suffering on this one. It's amazing how 1 tool can make all the difference. Great Repair and Video. Have a Great Move! Thank You.
I enjoyed it all the way. It was very fun* and educational at the same time. Thank you very much for sharing. Device solved. All the best. (*) PS: (10:05 - 10:07) So, the "guilty" component should be shown by raising his hand as in a classroom roll call? lol ... Well, how can you not agree with that? Sir: Please transport carefully, that is, your person first, in your own car, and then the other, that is, take your time because we want you back.
Nice one m8. Thought you would have used the millivolt trick you showed some videos back, to try detect the short. Thermal cams are indeed invaluable tools.
We had not long time ago EDM-020 with many faults. First of course F7002 blown, next A2 IC behind it was shining under thermal camera. Once removed, WiFi module started giving a heat. Once replaced with 0.76mm balls from a 2nd PS5, we had no sure, but one more fuse with 0603 cap 22uF or 47uF as well. Only by replacing all of it, the console went back to life. I did an explanation video, but not from repair. P.s: one Polish youtuber and SteveBe told that 0.76mm are fine. But that Polish guy on his superb microscope was showing the size of 0.96mm I think those balls for the WiFi.
I have used 0.76mm and also (2) 0.6mm balls on the WIFI. On this repair, I used two 0.55mm balls as my others were in storage. It worked just fine. Thanks for watching!
@@ToltecMerc Thank you for a prompt reply. No harm in watching, always a pleasure, but it's a shame that sometimes I have to skip to watch it. I'd need 2nd life to have enough time for watching though :D.
I believe you have injected voltage into the ground side of the cap instead of the 3.3v side at 14:27 , otherwise you should find that short cap instantly without removing wifi module
I have the same issue but board 020 in the 1.80 V rail. my mistake was I use a new thermal cam that didnot work well as my other one instead of double check with both, I confident 100% in my new one, big mistake. that show me the WIFI IC I removed it cause it was getting hot but it wasnt the culprit it was a big cap in the 1.8V nearby the SB and that line is under 200ohms and my meter show me short too in continuity mode another mistake cause was a bad reading cause was hot yet. what solder ball do you use for that WIFI IC?
I think they used some low quality ceramic caps. It could just be a bad batch but it happens so often. I wonder if they will change suppliers after so many failures. Probably not. Sony wants to make these as cheaply as possible.
